How they manage it, no one quite knows, but female loggerheads
are thought to return to the very same beaches where they were hatched
to lay their own eggs, several years after they themselves made the
trek from nest to surf as hatchlings. Anyone who has seen the tiny
turtles, so slow, vulnerable and unsuited for land travel, make that
improbable journey comes away with a sense of wonder and awe at their
survival. What's more, the little hatchlings then embark on what is
poetically called the "lost years." No one quite knows what they do or
where they live until they reach adulthood. It is supposed that they
hang out in rafts of sea grass in the open ocean before they return to
coastal waters.
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